Jobs at Shield

Own university recruiting strategy and full-cycle hiring for interns, co-ops, and new graduates across engineering and select business functions. Build campus partnerships and employer brand, manage career events, lead technical candidate evaluation, close offers, support onboarding, and drive intern-to-full-time conversion. Partner with senior leaders on workforce planning, track funnel and school ROI metrics, and optimize recruiting strategy. Travel is required during peak campus recruiting season.

Supports global mobility operations, including domestic and international relocations, expatriate assignments, immigration coordination, case tracking, employee communications, vendor management, documentation, reporting, audits, and process improvement. The role coordinates with HR, payroll, finance, legal, security, immigration counsel, relocation providers, and other stakeholders while maintaining accurate records, meeting deadlines, and escalating complex or sensitive matters.

Designs and releases propulsion components and assemblies for UAV internal combustion and jet systems. Leads Siemens NX CAD modeling, detailed drawings, GD&T, design standards, manufacturability, configuration control, BOM management, and work instructions. Collaborates with production, machinists, technicians, and responsible engineers to resolve hardware issues, support testing, investigate root causes, and implement design improvements. Applies engineering analysis and tools such as ANSYS, FEA, GFSSP, and REFPROP.

Owns logistics planning, supply support, supportability analysis, maintenance planning, provisioning, spares forecasting, and lifecycle sustainment for autonomous aircraft systems. Performs Maintenance Task Analysis, Logistics Control Number development, Reliability and Maintainability analysis, Level of Repair Analysis support, inventory planning, and repair pipeline tracking. Coordinates with engineering, manufacturing, supply chain, suppliers, and field operations to ensure parts and support resources are available throughout development, production, deployment, and operational sustainment.

Leads aircraft reliability engineering across development, integration, testing, and operations. Establishes reliability requirements and budgets, performs FMEA/FMECA, FTA, RBD, Weibull, and reliability prediction analyses, tracks reliability metrics, supports system safety and testing, reviews supplier data, leads FRACAS activities, identifies design improvements, and communicates risks and corrective actions to engineering leadership and customers. Mentors engineers and improves reliability processes.

Lead architecture, requirements, systems integration, and flight testing for next-generation autonomous UAS platforms. Define system behavior, modes, fault responses, and subsystem requirements; use MBSE tools for modeling and trade studies; integrate avionics, autonomy, propulsion, sensors, and mission systems; support safety analysis, performance validation, airworthiness, and operational deployment. Collaborate with engineering teams, DoD stakeholders, industry partners, and government agencies to deliver mission-ready aircraft.

Leads cybersecurity for airborne aerospace and defense platforms, including architecture, requirements, threat modeling, vulnerability assessments, attack-surface analysis, secure boot, authentication, encryption, key management, and defense-in-depth. Oversees DoD Risk Management Framework activities, authorization evidence, cybersecurity verification, penetration testing, supplier risk reviews, and corrective actions. Partners with engineering teams, suppliers, customers, and program leadership to ensure secure, resilient, safe, and mission-effective aircraft systems.

Design and integrate electromechanical avionics systems from concept through production and flight-test readiness. Responsibilities include avionics packaging, electrical interconnects, thermal management, aircraft integration, structural and modal analysis, environmental and EMI/EMC compliance, design reviews, system validation, and failure analysis. The role collaborates with electrical engineers on PCB constraints, circuit cards, mechanical interfaces, harnesses, and advanced manufacturing methods.

Leads end-to-end mission systems engineering for unmanned aircraft, including architecture, requirements, payloads, avionics, weapons, communications, integration, certification, and flight testing. Performs trade studies and system-of-systems analysis, oversees hardware-in-the-loop and flight-test campaigns, ensures compliance with aerospace standards, and collaborates with program teams, customers, partners, and suppliers to deliver fielded capabilities.

Owns fluid-system layouts, thermal transport hardware, and mechanical installations for Group 5 UAV aircraft. Designs ram-air circuits, liquid cooling systems, ECS/TMS architecture, brackets, mounts, and supports. Performs fluid, thermal, structural, and tolerance analyses; develops CAD models and drawings; sources components; coordinates suppliers; and builds test setups. Delivers integrated, maintainable hardware in an accelerated aerospace development environment.

Co-op reliability engineering role supporting autonomous aircraft hardware validation. Responsibilities include environmental and stress testing, failure analysis, root cause investigations, reliability risk analysis, FMEA, design reviews, corrective actions, process improvements, and collaboration with engineering, manufacturing, and suppliers. The role also involves Python-based data analysis, occasional travel, and ownership of a project under senior engineering mentorship.

Design and develop structural components and assemblies for autonomous UAVs from concept through production release. Perform CAD modeling, hand stress calculations, limited FEA, drawing release, and structural validation. Collaborate with aerodynamics, propulsion, avionics, payload, manufacturing, and flight-test teams. Support hardware integration, testing, failure analysis, design reviews, and resolution of build issues while ensuring aerospace standards, manufacturability, structural integrity, and system integration.

Develop, deploy, and maintain full-stack internal software tools for Shield AI teams. Collaborate with stakeholders to refine requirements, architect robust solutions, and deliver tools that improve team workflows. The role involves supporting a varied suite of applications, from aircraft physics analysis tools to ticket-tracking systems.

Leads enterprise compensation strategy for aircraft manufacturing, production, operations, supply chain, logistics, customer success, and skilled-trades workforces. Designs wage structures, geographic differentials, shift premiums, progression frameworks, and compensation governance for large non-exempt populations. Advises executives on workforce planning, organization design, facility expansion, market competitiveness, pay equity, compliance, and financial modeling. Partners with Finance, Legal, People Operations, and business leaders while developing compensation capabilities across the organization.

Develop and maintain full-stack internal software tools used across Shield AI. Responsibilities include gathering and refining requirements, architecting robust solutions, deploying internal applications, and maintaining existing tooling. The role requires collaboration with multiple teams and may involve projects ranging from aircraft physics analysis to ticket tracking systems.

Leads mechanical systems and mechanical test organizations for autonomous aircraft programs. Oversees aircraft architecture, mechanical system design, integration, qualification, ground and flight testing, supplier execution, and manufacturing coordination. Builds engineering leadership capacity, establishes technical strategy and roadmaps, manages cross-functional dependencies and risks, and communicates program status to executives and customers. Scope includes landing gear, wing fold, doors, actuation, hydraulics, environmental control, and thermal management.

Provides senior technical leadership for structural analysis and validation of UAV airframes and components. Leads finite element modeling, static, modal, fatigue, vibration, and damage-tolerance analyses; supports structural testing, model correlation, flight-test validation, and design reviews. Drives optimization across performance, weight, cost, and manufacturability, partners with cross-functional aircraft teams, mentors structural analysts, and advances internal analysis standards.

Own aircraft thermal systems engineering for a Group 5 UAV fighter, including thermal analysis, CFD modeling, cooling-system design, requirements, risk management, CAD integration, testing, supplier execution, qualification, and airworthiness support. The role requires hands-on development of thermal hardware, model correlation with test data, and technical leadership across structures, avionics, fluid systems, and other vehicle disciplines.

Lead mass properties analysis for autonomous aircraft across design, prototyping, and production. Estimate and verify weight, center of gravity, and inertia; develop analysis tools; maintain reports and databases; execute verification tests; and support system trade studies. Collaborate with aerodynamics, structures, avionics, propulsion, and manufacturing teams to control mass properties and ensure compliance throughout development.

Leads mechanical integration of weapons and payloads onto aircraft, including weapons bays, external pylons, fittings, suspension and release fixtures. Collaborates with aircraft design and analysis teams, supports design reviews, and contributes to ground and flight testing. Serves as the subject-matter expert for physical weapons integration on the X-BAT platform.